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Linda Castro, left, assistant policy director of CalWild, with her dog Cash, and Gregor Losson, an advocate for rock and mineral collectors, study a specimen at Cady Mountains in Mojave Trails ...

The return of cooler months to the desert invites exploration of the sprawling Mojave National Preserve just over the Nevada border in Southern California. Although the preserve contains few ...

Spanning 1.6 million acres of desert between Barstow and Needles, the Mojave Trails National Monument is an explorer's paradise. With slot canyons, sand dunes, wilderness areas and the Amboy Crater, ...

My hoodie would only last another few minutes, if that, under the quickly heating up late morning sun. My chihuahua Lupe and I were taking our time on the Mojave Riverwalk in Victorville as runners, ...

Mojave Trails National Monument might qualify as an International Dark Sky Sanctuary, according to new data released Tuesday by the Mojave Desert Land Trust. The 1.6 million acre monument borders ...

The Mojave Trails area is an invaluable treasure and will continue to serve as an irreplaceable national resource for geologists, ecologists, archaeologists, and historians for generations to come.

Sorry Quartzite Mountain, Lupe and I have a new favorite High Desert hiking trail. Horseshoe Lake Loop in Mojave Narrows Regional Park is more like a cool stroll than a vigorous hike, but the ...

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by outgoing ...

Imagine driving halfway across California for two full days, without ever encountering another vehicle. Impossible though it may seem in a state with more than 35 million registered vehicles (that's ...

It had been several hours since our own team of explorers, Editor Douglas McColloch, Tech Editor Sean P. Holman, Feature Editor Robin Stover, and friend of Four Wheeler magazine, Shane Casad from ...